Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

(24-04-2014 06:54 )babelover48 Wrote:  so is it safe to say that the pings are dead?

The searchers have given up on that. They aren't even listening for pings anymore.

What if it did actually land? because I get the impression it might not possibly in the ocean after all. I would have thought they could have found the location by now if they had continued listening for the pings.

(25-04-2014 05:03 )babelover48 Wrote:  What if it did actually land?

The Malaysian Prime Minister has just given CNN an interview in which he said that he hasn't given up on the idea that the passengers are still alive.

(24-04-2014 20:15 )Wayne Rasputin Wrote:  Could it be that the US shot down Flight MH370, maybe accidentally, and are now hoping it stays a secret forever?

Perhaps it was the North Koreans who shot the pane down, that would seem more appropriate.

(23-04-2014 13:36 )whizzer Wrote:  Does anyone know what the searchers are actually looking for? Are they anticipating that there will be large sections of the plane still intact or are they assuming that the plane would have burst into a million pieces?

If there was still someone at the controls when the plane went down it could have made a controlled landing, in which case the plane may have eventually sank more or less intact. This scenario would explain the lack of any floating debris.

The latest from CNN is that they got a group of oceanographers and engineers together to see if they could retreive information from a mobile phone which had been in the sea for 2 weeks. The answer was yes they could, which means that if the plane's ever found the phones that were on board would be items of great interest to the investigators.

(24-04-2014 06:54 )babelover48 Wrote:  When will they say 'enough's enough' and call a halt?

The Royal Navy has withdrawn its HMS Tireless submarine from the search for flight MH370. HMS Tireless had used sonar to try and locate the plane's black boxes, but it was stood down after the Australian searchers announced there was "no prospect" of detecting further "pings" from the box.

(13-04-2014 20:42 )diggidy dog Wrote:  Radar Playback of the Moment Malaysia Flight 370 Vanished!

I think it's time to revisit this recording and look again at the unidentified object seen. Given that no real answers have been forthcoming about the missing plane, surely this radar playback deserves more attention.

Yahoo News :

Quote:Sydney, Apr 26 (ANI): Agitated family members of the missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 reportedly held the airline's staff hostage inside a Beijing hotel for 10 hours and allegedly assaulted a security officer.

According to News.com.au, Malaysian Airlines released a statement about the two incidents which occurred late on Thursday and early yesterday as a delegation from Malaysian Airlines attempted to brief families at the Lido Hotel in Beijing.

About 200 grieving Chinese family members were called to attend a meeting, which was held by 10 Malaysian Airline staff.

The families were infuriated to learn that a Malaysian government official did not come to brief them and vented their anger on the airline staff.